Emoji is fast becoming the world’s first truly global form of communication. Today, emojis have become part of our daily existence with more than 90% of social networking users communicating through emojis and more than 6 billion being exchanged every day.

Contrary to popular belief, computer-assisted translation (CAT) isn’t a relatively new concept. Long before every household boasted a desktop computer, researchers had already developed a simple tool to translate words from one language to another.